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Gene Kranz, flight director for the NASA Apollo program and best known for his role in directing the successful mission control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, delivered the keynote address at the AIAA SpaceOps Conference Gala on the evening of April 29 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Kranz also received the 2010 International SpaceOps Exceptional Achievement Medal, for pioneering the concepts and procedures that laid the foundation for human... Topics: Where -- Alabama, What -- Apollo 13, AIAA SpaceOps Conference, Gene Kranz, U.S.Space & Rocket... Source: http://youtu.be/K7Z3Ixi9fBA

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Gene Kranz, flight director for the NASA Apollo program and best known for his role in directing the successful mission control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, delivered the keynote address at the AIAA SpaceOps Conference Gala on the evening of April 29 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Kranz also received the 2010 International SpaceOps Exceptional Achievement Medal, for pioneering the concepts and procedures that laid the foundation for human... Topics: Where -- Alabama, What -- Apollo 13, AIAA SpaceOps Conference, Gene Kranz, U.S.Space & Rocket... Source: http://youtu.be/ijwsQW_hcXY

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Gene Kranz, flight director for the NASA Apollo program and best known for his role in directing the successful mission control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, delivered the keynote address at the AIAA SpaceOps Conference Gala on the evening of April 29 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Kranz also received the 2010 International SpaceOps Exceptional Achievement Medal, for pioneering the concepts and procedures that laid the foundation for human... Topics: Where -- Alabama, What -- Apollo 13, AIAA SpaceOps Conference, Gene Kranz, U.S.Space & Rocket... Source: http://youtu.be/2qyjNXo0hok

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Gene Kranz, flight director for the NASA Apollo program and best known for his role in directing the successful mission control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, delivered the keynote address at the AIAA SpaceOps Conference Gala on the evening of April 29 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Kranz also received the 2010 International SpaceOps Exceptional Achievement Medal, for pioneering the concepts and procedures that laid the foundation for human... Topics: Where -- Alabama, What -- Apollo 13, AIAA SpaceOps Conference, Gene Kranz, U.S.Space & Rocket... Source: http://youtu.be/IpTnDLHknH4

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Gene Kranz, flight director for the NASA Apollo program and best known for his role in directing the successful mission control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, delivered the keynote address at the AIAA SpaceOps Conference Gala on the evening of April 29 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Kranz also received the 2010 International SpaceOps Exceptional Achievement Medal, for pioneering the concepts and procedures that laid the foundation for human... Topics: Where -- Alabama, What -- Apollo 13, AIAA SpaceOps Conference, Gene Kranz, U.S.Space & Rocket... Source: http://youtu.be/MXj7Ttytbyg

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Gene Kranz, flight director for the NASA Apollo program and best known for his role in directing the successful mission control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, delivered the keynote address at the AIAA SpaceOps Conference Gala on the evening of April 29 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Kranz also received the 2010 International SpaceOps Exceptional Achievement Medal, for pioneering the concepts and procedures that laid the foundation for human... Topics: Where -- Alabama, What -- Apollo 13, AIAA SpaceOps Conference, Gene Kranz, U.S.Space & Rocket... Source: http://youtu.be/oYo5MhcVgXM

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On the night of July 26, allsky cameras of the NASA fireball network detected three Perseid meteors in the skies over Tennessee and Alabama. The first seen by the cameras this year, these meteors are the "advance guard" of the Perseid meteor shower, which peaks on the night of Aug. 12. NASA plans a live Web chat on Aug. 12 to observe the Perseids: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/perseids_2011.html Topics: Where -- Alabama, Where -- Tennessee, Marshall Space Flight Center, Bill Cooke, Perseids meteor... Source: http://youtu.be/_T_GIJeXAzM

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Vigilant sky watchers were treated to a fiery surprise in western Alabama sky on Friday, March 19. Allsky meteor cameras at the Marshall Center and near Chickamauga, Ga., recorded a fireball streaking across the sky around 11:19 p.m. CDT. Moving at a speed of 42,500 mph -- or 12 miles per second -- the meteor burned up approximately 20 miles up in the atmosphere. Although very bright, the meteor was deemed not large enough to produce meteorites. Mid-March is typically a lull period for meteor... Topics: Where -- Alabama, Where -- California, Where -- Mississippi, fireball, meteor, bill cooke, marshall... Source: http://youtu.be/vYkTcXtuOxk